When he learned he had ALS and roughly two years to live literary critic MarkKrupnick returned to the writers who had been his lifelong conversationpartners and... » 

When he learned he had ALS and roughly two years to live literary critic MarkKrupnick returned to the writers who had been his lifelong conversationpartners and asked with renewed intensity how do you live as a Jew whenmostly you live in your head? The evocative and sinuous essays collected hereare the products of this inquiry. In his search for durable principlesKrupnick follows Lionel Trilling Cynthia Ozick Geoffrey Hartman Philip RothSaul Bellow and others into the elemental matters of life and death sex andgender power and vulnerability. The editorsKrupnicks wife Jean K. Carneyand literary critic Mark Shechnerhave also included earlier essays andintroductions that link Krupnicks work with the deep places of his ownimagination. «